A great writer and speaker once told me that he often wrote with his feet in hot water; but for this, ALL his blood would have run into his head, as the mercury sometimes withdraws into the ball of a thermometer.
-- You don't suppose that my remarks made at this table are like so many postage-stamps, do you,--each to be only once uttered?
If you do, you are mistaken.

He must be a poor creature that does not often repeat himself.

Imagine the author of the excellent piece of advice, "Know thyself," never alluding to that sentiment again during the course of a protracted existence! Why, the truths a man carries about with him are his tools; and do you think a carpenter is bound to use the same plane but once to smooth a knotty board with, or to hang up his hammer after it has driven its first nail?
I shall never repeat a conversation, but an idea often.

I shall use the same types when I like, but not commonly the same stereotypes.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.